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Re: French problems

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:20 pm
by Shizle
But, you Brits have some interesting terms, like calling a trunk a "boot". And I gotta tell you, a boot is footwear. And a *** is NOT a cigarette.

j/k

Re: French problems

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:58 pm
by Blackadderthe4th
[quote=""Marksman_Anders""]But you did get sacked by us Vikings just before the middle ages. ;)[/quote]

The Danes and Vikings were quite annoying but we got our revenge by sacking Copenhagen in 1807. ;)

Re: French problems

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:05 pm
by Marksman_Anders
Yeah the first terror attack in history.

Remind me of the vikings in AOE2, the berserkers were quite good but they only had guard towers. :neutral:

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:15 am
by Cyclohexane
What do you call a man who can speak three languages?
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Trilingual
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What do you call a man who can speak two languages?
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Bilingual
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What do you call a man who can speak one language?
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American

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Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:22 am
by Soccerman771
The military classifies languages in difficulty of learning them (1 being the easiest, 5 being the most difficult). Does anyone want to take a wild stab at what the ONLY class 5 language is?

And at the current rate, Spanish will be the dominant language in the States..

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:04 am
by Marksman_Anders
Mandarin?

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:07 am
by I__CHAOS__I
Gaelic?

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:23 am
by Navarone_Guy
To speak, I have no idea. Probably some African or South American tribal language.

To write, I'd guess Chinese.

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:46 am
by I__CHAOS__I
from all asian languages, Thai is one of the hardest someone told me, because they have 6 different tones (china has "only" 4)

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:11 am
by Crazy
um... english?

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:22 am
by Soccerman771
English...Chinese is a 4..

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:41 am
by Navarone_Guy
Well, do you mean to speak enough to get by, or perfectly? Cause a lot of people with English as their first language completely mangle the poor thing.

Re: French problems

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:37 pm
by Marksman_Anders
I guess it depends where one comes from. I blame AOE 1 + 2 and watching movies for being able to speak and write English fluently today. This table suggests Arabic and a bunch of Asian language though: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/ ... uages.html